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Auguste Picard

* 1884 in Basel
+ 1962 in Lausanne

   

Auguste Picard


Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer,
known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights,
with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays,
and for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2,
with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.


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